Cennarium Backstage Issue 3 - Promenade Festival Special Edition | Page 12

Friday, September 15th - Opening Night
Promenade is the first-ever streamed
performing arts festival. The all-online
festival is just around the corner and
you will be able to watch 19 performing
arts shows from all over the planet
throughout Promenade’s 10-day run.
On the same stage, you will be able to
watch a wet ballet classic in Norway; an
African-inspired circus in France; our
favorite Muppet frog and his team at
a comedy gala in Canada; a delirious,
beautiful, and explosive theatrical
performance in Argentina. In one
common room, any and all can explore
the unique performing arts existing
within the many corners of the world.
Promenade
Festival
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
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cennarium.com/promenade/
Brought to you by Cennarium,
Promenade is here with its purpose of
growing “the global performing arts
audience by making great performances
more accessible and affordable to a
larger portion of the population,” said
Themis Gomes, CEO of Cennarium.
“Movies, television shows, and music
are readily available online; as content
is increasingly consumed digitally,
we want to make the performing arts
just as accessible as other forms of
entertainment.” With Promenade, it
becomes clear how the access to the
arts is a priority for the company.
Carefully curated for all tastes,
Promenade will be live during
every evening September 15 to 24,
2017, broadcasting performances
from a variety of genres. Take a
closer look at the program as we
break down each festival day.
PS: In the case you have not gotten your
Promenade tickets yet, get yours for free
at cennarium.com/promenade/ and enjoy!
Both photos by Filip Van Roe
ROOM 1
Ravel
by Cherkaoui/Verbruggen
The French composer Maurice Ravel remains
a source of inspiration for any choreographer.
Artistic director and star choreographer Sidi Larbi
Cherkaoui and rising talent Jeroen Verbruggen
take their vision of Ravel’s music to the stage.
Jeroen Verbruggen, who as a young student
dancer at the Royal Ballet School won the Prix de
Lausanne, has drawn his inspiration from Ravel‘s
Pavane pour une Infante défunte and from Ma mère
l‘oye. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui also translates Ravel into
dance, opting for Pictures at an Exhibition, which
was originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky,
but which was later orchestrated by Ravel to
become the most widely performed orchestration
of this work: It has thus become truly canonical.
It is a programme full of surprises with which
the Royal Ballet Flanders (Ballet Vlaanderen)
might just write a page of dance history.
#streamthearts #streamarts
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